#Author
#PennedPossibilities 159 — So far, what part of your WIP was the most fun to write?
Fast paced action and fast paced dialog.
My MC is rarely foul-mouthed, but she loves to bait people who annoy her, deny her, or control her. If she's baiting a man, it means ricocheting from innuendo to spock-like logic to deadly serious threats to whatever gets under their skin, sometimes in one paragraph. This means, I have to make people conclude she's crazy, to hide her cool and calculating autistic side, and the people-mistakes she sometimes makes. While she's working hard to figure how to control her "enemies," I'm choreographing both "magical" and physical fight sequences. She's a blast to write as she thinks on her feet physically and strategically, while, because of how the "magic" works, also thinking mathematically.
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Today in Labor History December 10, 1896: Alfred Jarry's play, Ubu Roi, premiered in Paris. At the end of the performance, a riot broke out. Many in the audience were confused and outraged by the obscenity and disrespect they felt in the performance. Others, like W. B. Yeats, thought it was revolutionary. Jarry’s work was a precursor to Dada, Surrealism and the Theatre of the Absurd. Ubu Roi is a parody of Shakespeare's Macbeth and parts of Hamlet and King Lear. However, having recently reread the play, I found an uncanny resemblance between Pere Ubu and Donald Trump.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #AlfredJarry #surrealism #dada #absurdism #theatre #Riot #shakespeare #writer #author #play @bookstadon
Keep up the momentum! This week, I'll share a crucial component of your reboot for 2024. You won't be successful without it.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/week-two-toward-better-you-molly-cantrell-kraig-hiboc
#3mr #goals2024 #NewYear #NewYearsResolution #LifeCoach #LifeLesson #LifeHack #LifeCoach #author #books #ebook
#PennedPossibilities 158 — How has the loss of a loved one affected your MC? Has it taught them anything or given them any new perspectives?
Ciel Cristal is the MC of a side story. What loved one does he lose? His life-long best friend and fiancée, after a knife fight forces him to flee from the constables, leaving her behind the day before their wedding. He's never been away from her since childhood. He's forced to make a new life under a assumed name, alone, without her in another city, to make a living outside the "family business," to make friends he might never have made, to grow.
He also learns what he was willing to ignore: Despite loving his future wife, he has never been attracted to her—or any woman.
[Author retains copyright.]
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#fiction #romance #writing #writer #writers #author #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon
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Woke up to a 5 star Goodreads review. Very lovely way to start my Sunday!
#PennedPossibilities 157 — Is there anything in life your MC has changed their mind about (due to becoming more educated on the topic or certain experiences), or that they COULD change their mind about in the future?
The MC once upon a time loathed and despised the main antagonist, convinced that the woman lived to make her life a living hell and wanted nothing but to make the MC the woman's tool.
Now the MC understands why. She's changed her mind about the antagonist. She now respects the woman and agrees she did the right thing to make the MC her tool.
The main antagonist's logic was impeccable. Her methods much less so, which doesn't make my MC like her one bit more.
[Author retains copyright.]
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#fiction #fantasy #sf #sff #sciencefiction #writing #writer #writers #author #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon
#RSdiscussion
#PennedPossibilities 156 — Is your MC deceptive, or willing to lie or deceive to achieve certain means? Why or why not?
She does lie, but it is to protect from admitting things she considers embarrassing. She will lie easily to protect others, but she'd rather avoid the issue. She will deceive people who are taking advantage of her. She can equivocate especially well, if any of the preceding conditions are met.
If the reader pays close attention, they will notice slightly different versions told in narration depending on the person spoken to, sometimes with extra information, or with information spun differently (usually in her disfavor). She is an unreliable narrator to varying degrees. Consider: What are you going to tell you mother about your bedmate, for example.
[Author retains copyright.]
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What do you think is the best way to know if you're getting better at writing? 🤔
@writers @writingcommunity @writing
#AmWriting
#Author #Authors #IndieAuthor #IndieBooks #AmWriting #Writerdons #Writers #Writer #Writing #WritingCommunity #Writinglife #WritersOfMastodon
Y'all, I don't have anything eligible for this but I bet you know a queer #author who does, and they'd love a nomination!
Read Anywhere But Schuylkill
https://www.thehistoricalfictioncompany.com/it/michael-dunn
https://michaeldunnauthor.com/
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #AnywhereButSchuylkill #fiction #novel #author #writer #historicalfiction #books #bookstadon #childlabor #union #strike #police #coal #mining #addiction #solidarity @bookstadon
!["Coffin Notice," with crude sketches of guns and a coffin, with equally crude, and incorrectly spelled, threats to the bosses.
Includes the following quote from the historical novel, Anywhere But Schuylkill:
They found Uncle Sean in a snowdrift, behind Shoemaker’s Slaughterhouse, barely moving except for occasional shaking. His nose was bent sideways, with a puddle of frozen blood below it. His left eye was swollen shut. All around him, more blood, as if someone had sprayed the snow with red paint.
Mr. Hurley picked up a card that had fallen from Uncle Sean’s coat pocket.
“It’s a coffin notice,” he said.
Uncle Sean’s eyes narrowed. “So?”
“Ye know damned well. Means a bullet in the head if ye try to work again during the strike.”
--Anywhere But Schuylkill
This "coffin notice" was originally presented by Franklin B. Gowen as evidence to the Pennsylvania legislature in 1875. It has pictures of guns and a coffin and says in poorly spelled English: “Notice you have carried this as far as you can by cheating the men. You bosses be careful the above [coffin] don’t be your house in a short time.” Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=137888047](https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/cache/media_attachments/files/111/552/183/189/129/608/small/dc729cbf3db4d28d.jpg)
Today in Labor History December 9, 1842: The Anarchist formerly known as Prince, Peter Kropotkin, was born on this date in Moscow. Kropotkin was a geographer and anarcho-communist. His most well-known works include “Conquest of Bread,” “Fields, Factories,” and “Mutual Aid, A Factor of Evolution,” which explores the role of mutually-beneficial cooperation and reciprocity (i.e., mutual aid) in the animal kingdom and human societies both past and present. It was an argument against the theory of social Darwinism, popular at the time, that argued that existing social relations were the natural consequence of rich people’s inherent genetic superiority over the poor. Kropotkin argued that because mutual aid has pragmatic advantages for the survival of human and animal communities, it has proliferated through natural selection. In 1874, Kropotkin was arrested and imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress for subversive political activity. In 1876, he escaped and fled to Switzerland. During his younger days, he served as a geographer for the Russian empire. In 1873, he published a scientific paper showing that the existing maps entirely misrepresented the physical features of Asia.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #anarchism #kropotkin #russia #prison #geography #MutualAid #Revolution #books #writer #author @bookstadon
Football, ice-cream and the best cafes for writing in to feature in author Yumna Kassab's 'dictionary of Parramatta'
By Rosemary Bolger
The renowned author of The House of Youssef and The Lovers has been named Parramatta's inaugural Laureate in Literature.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-09/parramatta-laureate-literature-yumna-kassab/103204854
Interesting segment in this #YouTube #video by #Bloomberg with #author #MatthewDesmond on his #book, #PovertyByAmerica.
Matthew reiterates salient points regarding #poverty existing in the #US because, collectively, we want it to exist, and #capitalism creates and depends upon it for its existence.
His phrase "#ChicNihilism" reminds me of the "#RadicalChic" of the same kinds of people in the 60's; ultimately a disengagement of the privileged.
We can change #society.
From the depths of an alien ocean, two intrepid humans end their lives catapulted onto the ultimate trip, far beyond the stars of our night sky...
Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2023/12/08/gleichen-and-valentinova-into-the-abyss/
This post's featured image is a detail of Ivan Aivazovsky's "The Ninth Wave".
#worldbuilding #OCs #originalcharacters #scifi #sciencefiction #story #writer #writing #author #interstellartravel #spaceflight #gravitationalcatapult #underwater #submarine #aliens #alienintelligence
So you know, @fringemagnet
, @taur10 is calling me out for a sentence he found in a beta chapter. Essentially, it reads as:
She made people believe I was by her declaration..., by a flurry of articles which..., by manufacturing that..., by displaying me to..., by making me personable and believably romantically involved..., /and/ by leaving me in charge...
The sentence is 81 words and 465 characters long. My grasp of rhetoric and elocution are on display. YMMV.
My nose feels well tweaked, but I'm still publishing it! (Raspberry sound.)
#comma #writing #writer #author #writingcommunity #writersofmastodon
'The Danger All Artists Face When They Leave Their Audiences Behind'
"When a reader is left behind, they inevitably feel like their sense of themselves is being attacked and decide to go on the attack themselves. In other words, you didn’t just lose a reader — you made an enemy."
Read: https://colehaddon.substack.com/p/the-danger-all-artists-face-when
#writing #amwriting #writingtips #writingcommunity #screenwriting #author #screenwriter #filmmaker #creativity
EditAI: GPT-4 Powered AI Copy Editing for Self-Published Authors! https://leanpub.com/edit_ai/buy #author #AI #selfpublishing
Your summer reading sorted: Our critics pick the top 15 books of 2023
By Kate Evans, Claire Nichols, Sarah L'Estrange, Declan Fry, and Cher Tan
From "an incredible debut" to a novel that "celebrates the joy that can be found in an ordinary, imperfect life" — these are our favourite reads of 2023.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-09/best-new-books-2023-charlotte-wood-paul-lynch/103194368
#BooksLiterature #ArtsCultureandEntertainment #Author #Novel #Fiction #CommunityandSociety #Philosophy #NonFiction #KateEvans #ClaireNichols #SarahLEstrange #DeclanFry # #CherTan
Sci-Friday #200 – Retrofuturism with Michael Crichton https://inkican.com/sci-friday-200-retrofuturism-with-michael-crichton/ #jurassicpark #westworld #AndromedaStrain #books #author #scifi
#MedicalEditors, ever wish you could get better results from the #author #queries you write when you're #editing? The American Medical Writers Association has a webinar for you: Art of the Editor's Query: Effective Strategies for Seeking Clarity. https://tinyurl.com/5dp9z8xx
This is my first unboxing video. I'm experimenting to see what helps me gain traction. My third book comes out on the 22nd of December.
#amwriting #books #CKP #Falstaff #Reading #sciencefiction #Theogeny #writers #writerscoffeeclub #fiction #sf #sff #writing #writer #writers #author #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon
"The sun sets, we ride!”
And so they did, for a while, then they stopped because they couldn’t see anything.
James Baldwin is being celebrated by the Brooklyn Museum tomorrow!
#Author #JamesBaldwin #Brooklyn #Museum #AI #AIart #Midjourney
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/calendar/event/symposium_james_baldwin_dec_2023/
Ben Wildsmith is an #author, #political #columnist for the https://nation.cymru/ news website and musician. His book Flags & Bones is serialised here https://www.cambriastories.net/tag/ben-wildsmith/
A very generous rating of my "Fantasy/Attempted comedy" story The Last Philosopher.
It's free to read, links can be found on my profile, thanks and sorry 😁
@bookreviews @speculativefictioncomedy @fantasybookstodon @reading
#AmWriting
#Fiction #Fantasy #Comedy #SFF
#Author #Authors #IndieAuthor #IndieBooks #AmWriting #Writerdons #Writers #Writer #Writing #WritingCommunity #Writinglife #WritersOfMastodon
#Review #Bookreview
#BookRecommendation
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Hot off the presses!
In the inaugural episode of The Qreative Life podcast I chat with my longtime friend (and creative badass) Rabia Chaudry, a NYT Bestselling author; host of FIVE podcasts; producer of an HBO series; immigration attorney and criminal justice activist.
Enjoy! 💛
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/imtheq/episodes/TQL-S1-E1---Rabia-Chaudry-e2cvh0o
#Creative #Writing #WritingCommunity #Podcast #PodcastersOfMastodon #Art #Music #CriminalJustice #WeFreedAdnan #Author
...power to those who [publish].
Indeed. And thank you. But kudos also to people who just get their work read.
I have learned sooo much in the intervening years. Where as I won't mind publishing conventionally, what matters now is that what I write gets read by enough people that I'm satisfied my message is getting out. I will probably always do some fanfiction, regardless of what I am writing, for that reason. I'm not going to worry about such things as advertising budgets that a publisher might have, or competition, not that I won't do my best! Just getting my message across is pretty flapping nice.
#Writing #Author #Writer #Writers #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #WritingLife
#WordWeavers 12.7 — Do you use foreshadowing, and if so, how do you do it?
There is a place for stream of consciousness stories where the author takes the reader on an interesting, perhaps symbolic journey, then ends the tale.
/I don't write that type of story./
Yes, I foreshadow. Unlike real life where events may seem random, storytelling requires me to telegraph where I am going with a story. Foreshadowing leaves clues to mysteries in the character's world. Foreshadowing allows the reader to feel the dread the character ought to feel, or creates a sense of destiny. Foreshadowing ensures that story events make sense by providing a sense of /history/ leading up to revelations and realizations.
How do I foreshadow?
Good question! I always start a story by knowing the ending. Besides ensuring I might finish the story, knowing the ending allows me to immediately drop clues about what will happen in the future. Further, I will even drop clues if I don't know what might happen. (Until publication, I know I change anything. It isn't history, so sometimes I throw lasagna at the computer.) Of course, I must eventually tune the foreshadowing to ensure events make sense in the context of the created history of the story.
Since I am a pantser, other than knowing where the story will end, I don't always know where the story is going.
Then... how can I foreshadow during composition, you ask?
Foreshadowing: When I think I know where the story has to go, I drop hints just as the character intuits (i.e., the author intuits) where things are going.
Backfilling: When something important happens in the story, I think of tipping points and crucial events that can lead to the character (and reader) coming to that revelation. I add the foreshadowing at the earlier points in the story, then resuming composition.
Revision: Once the story is complete, I cut out all red herrings (they leave a sour taste in the reader's mouth). I will add foreshadowing or teak what passages to enhance expectation or add clues.
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Taken this day, 2022, @amendlocke reading at Shoreline of Infinity's Event Horizon evening https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/52555361184/
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #books #livres #ScienceFiction #photography #KenMacLeod #author #auteur #ShorelineOfInfinity
I just finished my 4-week seminar series. Yesterday's session covered Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, Bluesky, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, Flickr, Wattpad, & GoodReads. I've written a summary book, 76 pages, describing what each one is best for. I could use some beta-readers! #author #writer #artist
Yanina Bellini Saibene( @yabellini ) discussed teaching, localization, barriers to learning coding, and global communities with Elecia( @logicalelegance ) and Chris @stoneymonster ).
Listen here: https://embedded.fm/episodes/465
Embedded is excited to be sponsored by Nordic Semiconductor and Memfault.
My youngest drew some chibi art of two of my characters in my SFF series. Meet Rana and a grumpy Commander Savas.🤣🤣🤣
Didn’t they do a great job? I love these so much.
#FindingHumanitySeries #author #authors #oc #amwriting #writing
For centuries, people have read books without being surveilled, wondering if what they’re reading is what the #author wrote, or worrying that their book might disappear.
With digital books, everything has changed. https://www.battleforlibraries.com/congress/
If your #author #website is running on self-hosted #WordPress, update it as soon as you can.
PSA: Critical POP Chain Allowing Remote Code Execution Patched in WordPress 6.4.2
The #WriteTalkWednesday show has posted it's upcoming themes for 1Q 2024. If you're an author and would like to speak on one of our upcoming themes - reach out!
January - finding joy in our writing/writing what we love
February - finding comfort in our writing, feel good stories of all kinds
March - writing action and adventure
https://musecharmer.eponaauthorsolutions.com/guests/#upcoming
@bookstodon #bookstodon #writingcommunity #author #AuthorsofMastodon #WritersofMastodon #writersCoffeeClub
1/2 Poll Intro There are "Edit" notification settings in the Notification column of your instance web app for Mastodon. This notifies you if a post you starred or boosted was modified by the poster.
Question Is Edit notification on or off? Please take a moment to say whether you turned it on or off in a reply. Feel free to comment about what you think of this setting.
Please boost for the widest possible sample size.
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#RSdiscussion #poll #fedi #fediTips #fediVerse #mastodon
2/2 Poll Intro There are "Edit" notification settings in the Notification column of your instance web app for Mastodon. This notifies you if a post you starred or boosted was modified by the poster.
Question Do you get upset when someone modifies their post? Please take a moment to explain what you think in a reply.
Please boost for the widest possible sample size.
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Today in Labor History December 6, 1889: The trial of the Chicago Haymarket anarchists began amidst national and international outrage and protest. None of the men on trial had even been at Haymarket Square when the bomb was set off. They were on trial because of their anarchist political affiliations and their labor organizing for the 8-hour work-day. 4 were ultimately executed, including Alber Parsons, husband of future IWW founding member Lucy Parsons. One, Louis Ling, cheated the hangman by committing suicide in his cell. The Haymarket Affairs is considered the origin of International Workers Day, May 1st, celebrated in virtually every country in the world, except for the U.S., where the atrocity occurred. Historically, it was also considered the culmination of the Great Upheaval, which a series of strike waves and labor unrest that began in Martinsburg, West Virginia, 1877, and spread throughout the U.S., including the Saint Louis Commune, when communists took over and controlled the city for several days. Over 100 workers were killed across the U.S. in the weeks of strikes and protests. Communists and anarchists also organized strikes in Chicago, where police killed 20 men and boys. Albert and Lucy Parsons participated and were influenced by these events. I write about this historical period in my Great Upheaval Trilogy. The first book in this series, Anywhere But Schuylkill, came out in September, 2023, from Historium Press. Check it out here: https://www.thehistoricalfictioncompany.com/it/michael-dunn and https://michaeldunnauthor.com/
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #haymarket #anarchism #IWW #strike #union #solidarity #Riot #police #PoliceMurder #policebrutality #chicago #EightHourDay #GreatUpheaval #AnywhereButSchuylkill #historicalfiction #hisfic #books #novel #author #writer @bookstadon
So, if I occasionally feel like I know what I'm doing. Does that mean I don't get compensation? 😜 😂
@writers @writingcommunity @writing
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This week, we spoke with @yabellini about teaching, localization, barriers to learning coding, and global communities.
Listen to episode 465: Dinosaurs, Pirates, Spaceships here( https://embedded.fm/episodes/465 ).
Yanina touched on the need for collaboration between speakers of different languages in the tech. industry.
Thank you to Memfault for sponsoring Embeddedfm!
This week, we spoke with Yanina Bellini Saibene about teaching, localization, barriers to learning coding, and global communities.
Listen to episode 465: Dinosaurs, Pirates, Spaceships here( https://embedded.fm/episodes/465 ).
Yanina touched on the need for collaboration between speakers of different languages in the tech. industry.
Thank you to Memfault for sponsoring Embeddedfm!
Mafia Romance: "The global search interest for "dark romance" in general and "mafia romance" in specific has surged by more than 300%. Get access to the 90-page Pdf-Report and the accompanying 50+ minutes video from K-lytics:
https://k-lytics.com/dap/a/?a=16040&p=k-lytics.com/mafia-romance/
@bookstodon #Romance #books #author #publishing
My name is Jackson Allen - my dream is to take care of myself and be nice to people. I run the 'Emergency Reality Shelter' for what you need a break from the awful stuff going on today:
https://inkican.com/emergency-reality-shelter-scifi-short-stories/
Fun facts about me:
- Live in the PNW
- I rescue cats
- I produce my short stories into free audiobooks - https://youtu.be/AKfo9IZZY20
Nice to meet you!
Christmas big SALE from 01.12.23 till 31.12.23!
Any illustration/book cover/ music cover that cost
150-130$ now is only 100$!
100$ now is only 80$!
50$ now is only 30$!
10$ will stay 10$ because its already a bottom :)
Because I am lazy and didn't change the database, you can't get sale prices on my website.
But you can send me the reference number of the image and I will send it to you for these discounts!
#christmassale #discount #sale #bookcover #music #writer #author #indiewriter #indiemusic
#fantasyart #fantasy #humanart #darkart #mastoart #mastodon #fediart #fediverse #dnd #epicart
EPISODE 17 AVAILABLE NOW!
Join Ronald McGillvray & yours truly as we wrap up 2023 with an all-new author spotlight, a bunch of talk about books, movies, TV, games, music, and so much more!
YouTube: https://youtu.be/p02seZ41OUg?si=fATeL8wjQehSHHDt
Official Site: http://postmortemreport.com
#podcast #authorcast #author #spotlight #books #reading #movies #films #TV #television #TVShows #games #gaming #videogames #music #musicians #booktube #authortube #readingcommunity #booksofmastodon #readersofmastodon #bookstodon #booktodon @bookstodon
Today in Labor History December 5, 1928: The Colombian military slaughtered up to 2,000 people in the Banana Massacre. Workers had been on strike against United Fruit Company since November 12. They were participating in a peaceful demonstration, with their wives and children. The Columbian troops set up machine guns on the rooftops near the demonstration and closed off the access streets so no one could escape. The soldiers threw the dead into mass graves or dumped them in the sea. U.S. officials in Colombia had portrayed the workers as communists and subversives and even threatened to invade if the Colombian government didn’t protect United Fruit’s interests. Gabriel García Márquez depicted the massacre in his novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” as did Álvaro Cepeda Samudio in his “La Casa Grande.”
United Fruit, which is now called Chiquita, controlled vast quantities of territory in Central America, and the Caribbean, maintained a near monopoly in many of the banana republics in which it operated (e.g., Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica). By 1930, it was the largest employer in Central America and the largest land owner. In 1952, the government of Jacobo Arbenz, in Guatemala, began giving away unused land, owned by United Fruit, to landless peasants. In 1954, the CIA deposed the Arbenz government, leading to decades of brutal dictatorship and genocide of Guatemala’s indigenous population. The head of the CIA at that time was former board member of United Fruit, Allen Dulles, who also oversaw the over throw of the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, the Bay of Pigs invasion, and the MK Ultra LSD mind control experiments.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #strike #massacre #columbia #UnitedFruit #children #communism #cia #genocide #indigenous #GabrielGarciaMarquez #fiction #novel #books #author #writer @bookstadon
@yabellini was on Embedded with @logicalelegance and @stoneymonster to discuss teaching, localization, barriers to learning coding, and global communities.
Listen to episode 465: Dinosaurs, Pirates, Spaceships here( https://embedded.fm/episodes/465 ).
Here's Yanina's tip everyone should know:
Thank you to Memfault and Nordic Semiconductor for sponsoring Embeddedfm!
Here's a short excerpt from the show:
Elecia (04:46):
Do you have a tip everyone should know?
Yanina (04:52):
Yes. Related with projects. I would say that when you have to prioritize a task, try always to finish first the tasks that will allow other people in your team to continue, start or finish their work.
Thank you to Memfault for sponsoring the show!
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Rereading My #Childhood
#Author #TimothyCBaker examines how our #childhood reading shapes our #memories and the way we see the world.
All of childhood is an imagined world.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Books #Reading #Representation #Culture #BlackMastodon
Yanina Bellini Saibene( @yabellini ) joined Elecia( @logicalelegance ) and Chris @stoneymonster ) to discuss teaching, localization, barriers to learning coding, and global communities.
The transcript for the show is available now: https://embedded.fm/transcripts/465.
You're invited to read through and share your favorite quotes!
Thank you to Memfault for sponsoring the show!
While I appreciate *all* book sales, if you buy online, I can’t sign your book. 🙁 Want a personalized copy? Let’s see how this works.
Using either Venmo or CashApp, send $12.00 (paperback) or $25.00 (hardcover) and your address. Free shipping within the United States; $15 USD shipping worldwide. No tax.
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#BookBoost #Author #ChristmasPresents #autograph #Mindset #GrowthMindset #bookSales #writer #writing #leadership #personalDevelopment #books #FediGiftShop
Over the weekend, I shopped at Volumes Book Cafe and ordered an out-of-print book. The same item is available on Amazon, but all things being equal, I’d rather help an indie bookstore keep the lights on rather than contributing to the phallus-shaped rocket fund of someone who already has more money than he could spend in a million lifetimes.
#books #Bookstodon #author #buyLocal #IndieBookstore #shopping #economy #WickerPark #Chicago
I wrote my retirement letter today. It took a village to write. I thank all those that helped me psychologically to get to the point of writing it, as well as those that gave me ideas and the help I needed to get it from my head to the page. The characters in my novels are all sort of confident, but I am all sort of not. I thank everyone on Mastodon who gave me a good word or encouragement, too. I announced last month, but this letter is for the president of the company and makes it official when I hand it over.
I'm expecting an interesting reaction when I hand it over. I may report on that. I may publish the letter (which is quite standard and, I'm told, unexpectedly quite gracious) after my retirement mid-December.
🙏
#writing #writer #writers #author #writingCommunity #writersOfMastodon #thankful #resignation #retirement
I got a 1 star #review on my latest book yesterday. I’m trying to figure out how this happen, purely on a technical aspect. I’ve never sent an ARC to anyone named “Alexander.” Also, this person only has 15 total books read on their #GoodReads profile. The other 14 a different genre, then there’s my book. Best theory I can come up with is this person didn’t want to ruin their pristine account by giving a 1 star so used another account to do the dirty work. #writingcommunity #author @bookstodon
Ready to go on the first #podcast to talk about my latest book #TheCommitteeWillKillYouNow
I always get such #impostersyndrome before #author #interviews and I have to hold my book in my hand to remind myself, yes, I wrote it and yes, it’s real
#bookstodon #medmastodon #books #authors #authorsofmastodon #authorlife #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity
Inviting all #writers to join us for the fun & community of #WordWeavers. Participate with a WIP or an already published book. @AlinaLeonova and I have come up with some hopefully fun questions for December. Four players contributed the month’s community questions (see below).
As always, play the days you want, skip the ones you want. Please use CW as necessary. Looking forward to seeing all your answers, finding great books, & meeting new friends. Here you go!
#amwriting #author
Yanina Bellini Saibene( @yabellini ) joined Elecia( @logicalelegance ) and Chris( @stoneymonster ) to discuss teaching, localization, barriers to learning coding, and global communities.
Listen to episode 465: Dinosaurs, Pirates, Spaceships here( https://embedded.fm/episodes/465 ).
Thank you to Memfault for sponsoring the show!
A reminder that the #WritersCoffeeClub December daily challenge starts today 🎅.
A text version can be found on my blog here:
https://johnahowes.blogspot.com/p/mastodon-writers-coffee-club-daily_13.html
As ever, if you have any prompt ideas for future months, please let me know.
Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays ☃️❄️
Woke up early to do my first virtual visit for a school in the UK. What amazing kids. I could tell the librarian had prepped them for the visit because they had such keen questions. To top it off, this is the comment I got from the librarian:
"That was an absolutely amazing visit, the best virtual visit I’ve had in 10 years without a doubt."
Definitely worth waking up early!
The #WritersCoffeeClub prompts for December are ready, I hope you have fun with some of these. 🎅
A text version can be found on my blog here:
https://johnahowes.blogspot.com/p/mastodon-writers-coffee-club-daily_13.html
As ever, if you have any prompt ideas for future months, please let me know. I currently only have enough until March. ☃️❄️
#writingcommunity #writer #author #wordweavers #pennedpossibilities
Get these #Free #scifi and #fantasy books while you can! Choose from dozens of great titles and find a new #author to love!
https://books.bookfunnel.com/novsff001a/3ufzqnuht6
One of the more challenging parts of my current book release is being ghosted by most #ARC readers, at least compared to my other books. So I’d like to turn to the #fediverse and ask if there is anyone out there who would like to receive an ARC copy of my young adult book in exchange for a #bookreview before it comes out next week? #review #bookblog #authorsofmastodon #author #reviewer #writingcommunity #books #bookstodon @bookstodon
@neilhimself in conversation with Roz Kaveney at the British Library: the power of fantasy and making metaphors real
"I'm never quite sure what the boundary is in fantasy."
#Fantasy #author #books #NeilGaiman
https://howtobe247.com/neil-gaiman-the-power-of-fantasy-and-making-metaphors-real/
Hi, I'm an as-of-yet unpublished YA author and high school math teacher who just joined Mastodon. I'm looking out for suggestions of who to follow in the writing/teaching community!
#introduction #author #WritersCoffeeClub #writer #indieauthor #education @bookstodon @edutooters
#WritersCoffeeClub Ch 3 Nbr 21 — What things make a good book cover design?
Something that will intrigue readers into buying the book. I'm no designer and suspect I'll seek professional advise if I self-publish. If I conventionally publish, the publisher will consider such a thing advertising and I will consider myself lucky if they ask for suggestions.
Once I was asked. Two main characters got on the cover, a Japanese teenager and a sheepdog/human chimera. What was drawn were a caucasian vogue model and a wookie. The book sold out the printing, so I guess I can't complain.
#BoostingIsSharing
#CommentingIsCool
#fiction #fantasy #sf #sff #sciencefiction #writing #writer #writers #author #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon
#RSdiscussion
I'm Owen Tyme and I'm a novelist.
The image below is my publishing mark, which goes on the spine of my books.
I'd like to take a moment to explain, for those of you that haven't noticed the hidden meaning.
Owen can easily be twisted into 'owing' and Tyme is obviously pronounced the same as 'time'.
Owen Tyme => Owing Time => Time Owed => Balance of Time.
The Yin-Yan represents balance and I've replaced the dots with hourglasses to represent time.
Do I need to have [an author's website specifically for promoting your writing]?
Not necessarily, but the reality of selling books, even posting stories, is that there are intervals (months, maybe years), where readers aren't seeing anything new from you. The biggest tragedy is to be forgotten in the interval. You want readers to stay engaged. To do this, providing periodic news, story bits, interesting research, engaging links, etc. daily or weekly keeps them in mind. This was explained to me by a successfully self-publishing erotic-romance author and horror author. Even conventionally published authors should consider some sort of self-promotion. My experience with conventional publication is that the publisher may promote the big names over you, so some of it is still your responsibility. Your writing and their publishing are both businesses. That said, even fan fiction sites have blogging and advertising tools one should take advantage of.
#BoostingIsSharing
#CommentingIsCool
#fiction #fantasy #sf #sff #sciencefiction #writing #writer #writers #author #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon
#RSdiscussion #WritersCoffeeClub
For your amusement. Yesterday’s sketch was of an enraged cave digger and a human side-eyeing the artist and hoping they have plot armor 😂
(Cave diggers are the new predator in my future ice age book series)
#FindingHumanitySeries #sketch #worldbuilding #amwriting #writing #author
#authors #art
Today in Labor History November 20, 1820: An 80-ton sperm whale attacked and sunk the Essex, a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts. The tragedy occurred off the western coast of South America. 7 members of the 20-man crew died at sea, as they attempted to make land in the lifeboats. Survivors ate their dead comrades to stay alive. The story inspired Herman Melville to write his 1851 novel Moby-Dick. And it inspired modern day orcas to organize and fight back to reclaim the seas from humans.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #orca #OrcaRebellion #melville #MobyDick #literature #fiction #novel #author #writer @bookstadon
This is your weekly reminder to tip your favorite content creators and SWs.
Show them you appreciate their work, support their projects, vids and blogs.
All my links are in the bio if you want to read my tech blogs, join my newsletter etc (all free).
Tips/Support:
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#contentcreator #socialmedia #kofi #tips #tech #blog #author #infosec #nerd #security
Unbelievable #author moment this week. When both my books were in the top 20 in Amazon Medical Thrillers 😮🤯🙏❤️
#books #bookstodon #authors #thrillers #MedMastodon
Are you a #Writer looking for a collective or collaborators?
:blobcatthink:
What would collaboration among authors even look like?
:thinkSpin:
https://universeodon.com/@SrRochardBunson/111422975152192799
#ArtFED #Collaboration #Artists #Federation #Author #Writing
I want to write a story about #SocialMedia called The #Autistic #Coffeeshop.
Apologies to my brethren on the #spectrum, but I think it’s pretty accurate.
Social Media is a fairly lawless place peppered with disinformation and political and fiscal schemers looking for the next dupe. And porn sales. I’m thinking of #Xitter for example.
But it’s also the minds and feelings of modern humanity. More like #Mastodon.
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Happy I Love to Write day! 📚
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#ILoveToWriteDay #writer #writing #author #WritersCommunity #FantasyWriter
I’ve done it now, committed to writing (and therefore publishing and marketing) another book. Any author knows what that means…WAY TOO MUCH sitting in my future. With the sales coming up, I’m ready to take the plunge on one of those sit/stand desks. Have you got one you’re passionate about? Any key accessories? And did you get anything to stand on? A smooshy foot pad? One you have to balance on? An underdesk treadmill!?! Guide me :)
#Australia #Writers #Author
I've been meaning to do this for ages. It's about time. My significant other is a part of the incredible #writingcommunity here but she's been too shy to follow anyone first. I would love it if all of my amazing friends on here could go and follow Teresa. She's wonderful, friendly, a fantastic writer, etc. She's everything I love. She's my other half. 💜
Please follow her!
She's here: @aperfectsong
#wordweavers #pennedpossibilities #writerscoffeeclub #doctorwho #podcast #writer #author
Finally created a webring for all the #bookstodon, #booktok, #bookstagram peeps on the Small Web ♥ It's a webring and directory so we can all find each other. 🥰 Now accepting members! 📚 https://thebookring.neocities.org/
@bookstodon
#IndieWeb #WebRevival #books #webring #SmallWeb #OldWeb #bookish #bookblogger #bookblog #bibliophile #writer #writers #author #authors #readers